The photographs shown here have an enigmatic quality. The question of how they are created is not initially easy to answer. Patey's grainy compositions appear to echo the qualities possessed by traditional photography using 35mm film. They have a look of drawings about them and yet, they are photographic. The titles are evocative of traces: of a bird's wing on landing, of a distant interplanetary moment; a comet's tail... Finally, the viewer may discern a horizon and waves...drawings on a beach made by no human hand: these are found markings made my mother nature herself but appropriated by the keen creativity of the artist.